Be The Star You Truly Are!

I may be prejudiced in this area, however I think you can probably see the effect an evening of good live entertainment has on the audience.

Healthy Wealthy & Wow!

Attending live entertainments have a lot in common with my last post witch dealt with studying new subjects to keep alert as well as up to date.

Entertainment can often take the place of or be used to add to teachings. I’ve learned so much of the history I know well through plays that dealt with the times and places the happenings that took place in them. I wouldn’t feel half as close to e.g., King Henry V of England were it not for William Shakespeare’s play about him. Live entertainment can keep one’s mind exercised. To read one of Shakespeare’s plays is a great experience; but understand that he wrote them to be seen rather than read.

I notice that many older audience members in theaters, cabarets and supper clubs feel rejuvenated when they see a person in his/her “60s”, “70s”, “80s”, etc. entertaining on a stage. It frees their minds to regain their own youthful vitality.

Note: I promise to write a blog post in which I’ll discuss the term “cabaret” and how it’ become misinterpreted during the last few decades due to the musical and movie of that name. While the level of talent and music can vary you’re very likely to hear what’s become known as The American Songbook in a cabaret.

People remember songs. Songs affect their lives. I was so moved when I entertained at the Sr. residence my Mom lived in during the last year of her life. One of the floors was especially set for people who had memory loss. My mom had partial memory loss. She always remembered me and knew what she had for lunch and she could even play some bridge. Several of the residents, however, had almost total memory loss. Lo and behold, when they’d hear a song that was well known in their youth or their 20s or 30s – they would sing along with no memory problem. The vibration of music seems to get implanted in us. I highly advise you to listen to music and, especially to attend live performances of songs you loved or new songs you want to have in your brain when you add years. It will keep you mind active in those years.

Bobbie Horowitz Productions

As a songwriter, performer and producer I’ve felt the effect that knowing I’ve gotten people to think or to laugh or be moved or to get into discussions with each other – had on my body and your mind.

As an entertainer or producer, you’ve got to become astute. You’ve got to quietly look to see what’s working for your audience and what isn’t. To make the changes that will communicate the message to the audience, if changes are needed, you need to work with others and keep your mind sharp in terms of dealing with people. You’ll also need to keep your mind sharp in terms of picking people to work with and choosing material (or writing it) that will affect the audience in the way the work was intended to affect them. This type of analysis helps keep me youthful and alert. All my friends in theater, if they’re good at what they do, know that there’s a lot of physical activity that goes into entertaining. I’m not even talking about dancers, and acrobats, etc. The hours spent in rehearsal and the exercise needed to keep in shape for the act or the part in a play or looking authentic and able when meeting with investors, if you’re a producer, requires a lot of stamina and helps people stay youthful. We’ve seen “fame” take its toll on certain performers. Most of the performers I know have performance coaches and many have spiritual coaches to keep their mind as well as their body in youthful and healthy shape. I marvel at the people I see, who are well on in terms of the years they’ve lived, get up onstage and lift the spirit of everyone in the room house! Marilyn May celebrated her 85th birthday by wowin’ them at Birdland! John Gabriel famous for his years on Ryan’s Hope and many shows was 82 when he performed “It Was a Very Good Year”, in the show I produced honoring songwriters. Ervin Drake, writer of that song sang his “I Believe” in the show at age 94! His wife Edith, at 92 could be on the cover of Vogue! I can see that performing and/or helping performers keeps these people young. So – you wonderful performers who are reading this blog post – keep doin’ what you’re doin” in terms of staying with it if it’s your love. If you need some help in terms of weight or strength please read my book, which is available on Amazon and on my site. The new EBook which is being completed now, will cost next to nothing when you’ve bought the original. The original is titled: “Find Your mini-Qs(?): Reveal the Slim, Strong, Sexy Star You Truly Are! – at Age 50, 60, 70, and Beyond.” The EBook will have a different title and will have new information in it.

The term “mini-Qs” may sound odd to you. It’s a term that popped into my head when I was “trying” to get back into shape in my early 60s. It stands for the “minimum quantity” of each thing I felt I needed to do that would get me to my goal. It’s not a new idea! Aristotle plugged it! However, the words “habit” and “routine” acquired negative reactions in our society. Daily habits are the way to get things done so I discovered that using a term that made me giggle helped a lot!

You can make up a term for yourself! It makes getting and staying fit fun! (Daily habits and routines are what will get you the audition too.)

NEWS

My new book: "Find Your mini-Qs(?) Reveal The Slim, Strong, Sexy Star You Truly Are! at Age 50, 60, 70, and Beyond" is available on my site: www.bobbiehorowitz.com Click on Author
(You’ll find out what a mini-Q is when you read the book!)
I put various systems together and fitted them all to my lifestyle. I don’t feel as though I’m doing extra work and I’m having fun with each step each day. I help you design YOUR OWN path that fits right into YOUR lifestyle.
I choose to avoid any past terminology with “diet” or "system", etc that our brain wants to fight. You can read about why I do this in the book! You can have FUN and get into YOUR optimum shape.
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BOBBIE’S BIO

Bobbie began her theatrical career as an actress, studying with Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg and Gene Frankel. She appeared in over thirty NYC productions in theaters such as: Playwright’s Horizon’s, AMAS Rep., Hudson Guild, The Gene Frankel Theater, TNC, All Souls’ Players, and the Jean Cocteau Repertory. She also appeared in regional theater and summer stock, working with Jose Ferrer, Katherine Houghton and others.

Bobbie founded and served as Co-Executive/Artistic Director (1999-2006) of The Times Square Group, a not for profit, arts-in-education company, bringing arts education to students in New York City public high and junior high schools. The schools served ranged from arts focused schools to special schools for troubled students.

A half of the comic musical writing/performing team Horowitz & Spector, she won a MAC Award (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) for their show, Whatever Happened To the Kids From Brooklyn? Their songs have received NY Daily News, Billboard and ASCAP awards and have been played on theatrical musical country radio stations. The pair can be seen on You Tube. Tony winner, Chuck Cooper recorded their song, Together America”
. Bobbie now writes for cabaret performers and is writing a musical. She wrote a musical, The S.C.R.A.P. Workshop with John Meyer and was asked to write a special tribute the top earner of Isagenix. She performed the song at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

She was Executive Producer of Drama Desk Awards 1999 & 2000 and Associate Producer in 2001. Bernadette Peters, Bebe Neuwirth and Lily Tomlin were the hosts respectively. As a commercial theater producer she presented, The Betrayal of Nora Blake, at The Jermyn Street Theatre in London, where it’s sold-out, extended production earned rave reviews and later at The Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach, where it was voted 'Best Musical” by The Palm Beach Post. In past years she produced Angel Street, A Black Girl Talks To God, Victims of Duty and The Great American Backstage Musical off and off-off Broadway.

Bobbie produced major events, among them the first annual Soap Opera Day Celebration along with Mayor’s Koch’s Office of Film, Television and Broadcasting, Ruth Warrick’s Confessions of Phoebe Tyler Book-Launch with guest Ruby Keeler, the Mr. Bill in Space Book-Launch for Real-Good Productions and a Salute to Viveca Lindfors. She co-produced the Farewell To Bowie Kuhn event, which included speakers Howard Cosell, Sonny Werblin and President Emeritus Gerald Ford for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

As an Image Consultant, Bobbie serves private clients and has given seminars at Queens College, NYU School of Film & Television, The NY State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, T. Schreiber Studio, the Learning Annex, trade conventions at The Javitz Center, for corporations and, most recently through The Network. Her article MAXIMPACT was published in the AICI news, She co-wrote the presentation for an Escada fashion tour and was quoted in Seventeen Magazine. Her new book, Find Your Mini Qs: Reveal the Star You Truly Are at 50,60,70 & Beyond! will be in print summer 2010 and her book You’re Looking At A Winner is being updated. She was VP-Education of the Tri-State Chapter of The Association of Image Consultants, International from 1991-1993.

Bobbie was educated in the NYC Public School system, at The New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University (Class Marshall) and at Teachers’ College, Columbia University.